Sydney Rare Book Auctions: End of Year Sale: Books, Ephemera, Maps, A169, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
December 28, 2025 - December 28, 2025
Page Size: 440 items in 18 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
176 Greville Philipps Tregarthen

The Story of Australasia . New South Wales, Tasmania, Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria, Queensland, New Zealand. Part of The Story of the Nations Series

New York 1893 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
177 J G Keulemans edited by E G Turbott.

Buller's Birds of New Zealand: A New Edition of Sir Walter Lawry Buller's A History of the Birds of New Zealand Reproducing in Six-Colour Offset the 48 Stone-Plate Lithographs

1979 AUD 80.00 - 120.00 AUD 50.80
178 Ian Flemming.

The Man with the Golden Gun

1965 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
179 Ian Fleming.

Octopussy and The Living Daylights

London 1966 AUD 400.00 - 600.00 AUD 254.00
180 Ian Fleming.

The Man With The Golden Gun

London 1965 First edition in dustwrapper AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 241.30
181 MOUTERDE, Rene, S. J.

The Nahr el Kelb (Dog River). A guide to the antiquities. Translated into English by C. B. Hughes,

1934 AUD 50.00 - 100.00 AUD 88.90
182 Edith Wharton

The Buccaneers

New York 1938 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
183 illustrated by Isaac Robert Cruikshank

Lessons of Thrift,

AUD 80.00 - 120.00 AUD 50.80
184

1) The Official Opening by the Prime Minister of Australia, The RT.Hon, R.G. Menzies, CH., Q.C., of The Hot Strip Mill and Other Major Plant Extensions at the Australian Iron & Steel Ltd. Kembla Works NSW On Tuesday August 30, 1955.

AUD 80.00 - 120.00 AUD 63.50
185 Fridtjof Nansen

Farthest North. , Being the Record of a Voyage of the Ship Fram 1893-96 and of a Fifteen Months' Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen with an Appendix

London 1897 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
186 Ronald M. Berndt & Catherine Helen Berndt with John E Stanton

Aboriginal Australian Art

1982 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
187 E. O. G. Shann

Cattle Chosen : The Story of the First Group Settlement in Western Australia 1829 to 1841

1926 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 AUD 88.90
188

Review of Reviews for Australia December 15, 1900. Page 657 to 798.

1900 AUD 80.00 - 120.00 AUD 50.80
189 Ian Fleming.

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

1963 AUD 800.00 - 1,100.00 Not Sold
190

Boswell's Life Of Johnson Illustrated .

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 381.00
191 Walter Thornbury. Walter Thornbury

Old and New London: A Narrative of its History, its People, and its Places. A New Edition, Carefully Revised and Corrected. Illustrated with numerous Engravings from the most Authentic Sources.

London c.1875 AUD 150.00 - 250.00 AUD 88.90
192

The National Portrait Gallery

London. No date Circa 1870s AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
193 William Hatfield Second Edition

Desert Saga

1933 AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
194

Map of Europe Showing Boundaries of States According To Treaties.

AUD 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
195

St Paul's Church, Redfern, Sydney. Souvenir Diamond Jubilee 1855 - 1915.

AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
196 The Most Eminent Artists..

Picturesque Europe with Illustrations On Steel and Wood

London 1890s AUD 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
197

Webster's International Dictionary Of The English Language Being the Authentic Edition of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, ...

Springfield 1904 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
198

All Round The World An Illustrated Record of Voyages , Travels , and Adventures in all Parts of The Globe with Two Hundred Illustrations.

London 1870s AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
199 Edward Walford.

Greater London A Narrative of Its History, Its People, And Its Places

London 1880s AUD 100.00 - 200.00 AUD 63.50
200 the Australian author E V Timms.

Seven Historical Romance novels

Sydney 1950s AUD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
  • ALDE, Mar. 11: AUGUSTIN (Saint). De civitate Dei. Rome, Konrad Sweynheym et Arnold Pannartz, 1470. €20,000 - €30,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: [REGNART (LE LIVRE DE)]. [Le] Docteur en malice, maistre Regnard, demonstrant les ruzes et cautelles qu'il use envers les personnes… Rouen, 1550. €20,000 - €30,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: TRITHÈME (JEAN). Polygraphie et universelle escriture cabalistique. Paris, [Benoît Prévost pour] Jacques Kerver, 1561. €8,000 - €10,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: CAUS (SALOMON DE). La Perspective, avec la raison des ombres et des miroirs. Londres, John Norton, 1612.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: NICERON (JEAN-FRANÇOIS). La Perspective curieuse ou magie artificielle des effets merveilleux de l'optique. Paris, Pierre Billaine, 1638. €6,000 - €8,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: VONTET (JACQUES). L’Art de trancher la viande et toute sorte de fruits… S.l.n.d. [probablement Lyon, vers 1647]. €20,000 - €30,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: HUGO (VICTOR). [Paysage spectral avec une église], [vers 1837]. €20,000 - €30,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: [HERVEY DE SAINT-DENYS (LÉON D')]. Les Rêves et les Moyens de les diriger. Observations pratiques. Paris, Amyot, 1867. €3,000 - €4,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: GACHET (PAUL-FERDINAND). Les Chats de Gachet (Manuscrit). S.d. [avant mai 1873]. €6,000 - €8,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: [REDON (ODILON)]. PICARD (EDMOND). Le Juré. Monodrame en cinq actes… Bruxelles, Mme veuve Monnom, 1887. €7,000 - €9,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: [TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (HENRI DE) ET HENRI-GABRIEL IBELS]. MONTORGUEIL (GEORGES). Le Café-concert. Paris, [1893]. €4,000 - €5,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: [TERRY (EMILIO)]. Projet de fontaine. Dessin original au stylo et à l'encre noire. 1938. €2,000 - €3,000.
  • Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: HAMILTON, Sir William (1730-1803) - Campi Phlegraei. Napoli: [Pietro Fabris], 1776, 1779. € 30.000 - 50.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: [MORTIER] - BLAEU, Joannes (1596-1673) - Het Nieuw Stede Boek van Italie. Amsterdam: Pieter Mortier, 1704-1705. € 15.000 - 25.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: TULLIO D'ALBISOLA (1899-1971) - Bruno MUNARI (1907-1998) - L'Anguria lirica (lungo poema passionale). Roma e Savona: Edizioni Futuriste di Poesia, senza data [ma 1933?]. € 20.000 - 30.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: IL MANOSCRITTO RITROVATO DI IPPOLITA MARIA SFORZA. TITO LIVIO - Ab Urbe Condita. Prima Decade. Manoscritto miniato su pergamena, metà XV secolo. € 280.000 - 350.000